April 30, 201214 yr Hello! I am trying to remove a drive from my unraid without replacing it. There is still data on the drive. I tried the method described in the wiki at http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ_remove_drive but I cannot run the rsync command while the array is offline... and it seams pointless when it is still runnning since the /mnt/user includes data from my drive... Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks Tobias
April 30, 201214 yr Depending on how the allocation method is setup, it may go onto another drive if you rsync from the disk to the usershare. not 100% sure, but i would assume you could rsync it directly to a drive if the usershare doesn't work?
April 30, 201214 yr Author allocation method is high water can't I somehow move everything to a different drive, remove the obsolete disk and run parity build again?
April 30, 201214 yr Hello! I am trying to remove a drive from my unraid without replacing it. There is still data on the drive. I tried the method described in the wiki at http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ_remove_drive but I cannot run the rsync command while the array is offline... and it seams pointless when it is still runnning since the /mnt/user includes data from my drive... Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks Tobias You could copy the data off the drive copying within the server from disk to disk (from /mnt/disk? to /mnt/disk?). That way you can empty the drive, then remove it and recreate parity.
April 30, 201214 yr I would use 'mc' (midnight commander). With the two pane operation it is easy to see what and where you are copying.
April 30, 201214 yr You could go to the disk and rename the top level directory so the data does not appear in the user share any more. Then, you can rsyc to the user share. Make sure to exclude the disk from the user share first.
April 30, 201214 yr I would use 'mc' (midnight commander). With the two pane operation it is easy to see what and where you are copying. Second that.... easy, looks like windows, you see progress and you see what you do... This could by the way also be a very good addon for a future version "empty drive", such a command would: - remove the drive from all user-shares - copy all the data back to the user-shares (that way it will end up on other drives Disk could then be safely removed and parity reset
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